Democratic Quotes · Page 24

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

— David Foster Wallace

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

— Jack Kemp

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and…

— Tony Benn

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all…

— Richard Armitage

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

— Van Jones

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

— Richard Holbrooke

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

— E. J. Dionne

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing…

— Salvador Allende

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding…

— John Podhoretz

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a…

— Adam Rapp

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They…

— Dee Dee Myers

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels…

— Thomas Piketty

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as…

— Amy Klobuchar

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of…

— Robert M. Hutchins

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

— Aldous Huxley

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that…

— Henry Giroux

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy…

— William A. Rusher

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good…

— Howard Zinn

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does…

— Ann Coulter

This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of…

— Amby Burfoot

There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to…

— Henry Giroux

We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys…

— Craig Newmark

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many…

— John F. Kennedy

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

— Donald Evans

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force.…

— Gavin Esler

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of…

— Leopoldo Lopez

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of…

— Clarence Thomas

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair…

— Mo Ibrahim

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

— Adam Michnik

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

Democratic government can rise no higher than the intelligence, purpose and conscience of the individual citizen.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party…

— Gustav Heinemann

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

— Michael Foot

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

— Ayelet Shaked

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

— Joe Biden